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A radio station the Netherlands has asked our very own Marcel (the Guru) to make a special Bowie programme for their radio on April the 11th. Marcel plans a 2 to 3 hour special featuring Bowie songs on that station.
The show will be broadcasted in the Netherlands and the radio broadcast is in thecity of The Hague. According to the Guru, it will be very very special!
Here’s some important info for anyone wishing to go to the Glastonbury Festival this summer:
“Subject to the granting of a Public Entertainment Licence, tickets will be on sale on Monday 3rd April 2000.
The price will be £87.00, plus a £2 booking fee.
They will be available to buy securely online via this website, and also by post or telephone from the Glastonbury Festival Ticket Unit (further info when available).
They are also expected to be on sale at the normal high street outlets – the major outlet is (as normal) expected to be HMV. Full details will be here when available.”
Those of you who subscribe to the BowieNet Dial-Up Internet Service should have received an e-mail letter about the change in Dial-Up settings. Click here to see the letter.
You can go here for some more information and assistance on reconfiguring your dial-up connections. Or call the number you see in the e-mail that you should have received (and if you are a dial-up member, but did not receive an e-mail, click on link in the first paragraph).
Once again, this message is ONLY for people who use BowieNet as their Dial-Up Internet Service, and the date for changing your settings is Monday April 3rd.
The great Holly Palmer has a couple of gigs coming up, and joinging her at tonight’s and tomorrow’s gigs, the great Emm Gryner! The one-two punch. So, check out The Fez (380 Lafayette, NYC) tonight and tomorrow night, March 31st and April 1st!
Here are more Holly gigs, for the month of May:
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Enjoy the shows, everyone!!
This story appeared in the AllStar News at CDNow:
Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale will perform at an after show party following a benefit screening of American Psycho at Lot 61 in New York City on April 12. Cale composed much of the soundtrack to the film, which includes such artists as David Bowie, the Cure, New Order, and Eric B. and Rakim, among others. Tickets for the screening, held at Clearview Cinemas earlier in the evening, range from $75 to $750 and can be reserved by calling (212) 966-3651. All proceeds go to the Wooster Group.
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Boston Globe’s Boston.com ran an article that basically outlined the current state of the music industry, and weighed the effects of cutting-edge software products like the infamous Napster, BowieNet was mentioned as an example of a site that has taken advantage of all of the benefits that the new technology offers.
“The music industry is trying to protect its turf and curtail progress; at the same time, artists deserve to be paid. ‘If the recording industry wins, we lose the huge social advantages,’ says Harvard Law School professor William Fisher. ‘But if the recording industry loses, artists’ rights are eroded.’”
“…artists would release their music files online in an unprotected format, offering certain services (such as advance concert tickets) to honest fans who pay as they play. David Bowie has mastered the concept at www.davidbowie.com, which offers users everything from Internet service to CDs (as in compact disc and certificates of deposit).”
Go to the article @ Boston.com
Those of you who subscribe to the BowieNet Dial-Up Internet Service should have received an e-mail letter about the change in Dial-Up settings. Click here to see the letter.
You can go here for some more information and assistance on reconfiguring your dial-up connections. Or call the number you see in the e-mail that you should have received (and if you are a dial-up member, but did not receive an e-mail, click on link in the first paragraph).
Once again, this message is ONLY for people who use BowieNet as their Dial-Up Internet Service, and the date for changing your settings is Monday April 3rd.
PART 3 : GOLDEN YEARS – THE DAVID BOWIE STORY
This final instalment had some great sound bites, particularly from Nile Rodgers on ‘Let’s Dance‘, and Bob Geldof on David’s pivotal role in ‘Live Aid‘. Once again, fulsome praise was given to David’s talents from a wide variety of famous friends and colleagues.
The end of the programme seemed to me not to say enough on the innovation, excitement, and new, younger following generated by David’s later work, notably ‘Earthling‘ and ‘1. Outside‘.
His interest in the Internet was mentioned, but only in passing. I was expecting to hear something about his foresight and inspiration in creating the first fully interactive official fan site and ISP. We will hear more about this, no doubt, when the rest of the world has cottoned on! And of course, the chatters were hoping to be name checked, one by one (wink). Hehe….next time guys.
In general, this programme has been a great listen. It was fascinating to hear David’s very recent comments on his whole career. May I just add that the job of transcribing this for you has been a lot of fun, not least for the challenge it posed to my spelling abilities! (Rachmaninov, Blavatski et al)
For a Bowie fan, this series was a ‘must’. For more quotes and images from part 3 (no deliberate mistakes this week! Blam, please heave a sigh of relief, – unless you know different?) click here. If you haven’t already seen them, click here for part 1 and here for part 2.
“I mean its no secret, you know, my feelings about David artistically. I consider him the ‘Picasso’ of music and I really mean that sincerely.” – Nile Rodgers
“After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!” – Roger Taylor
“Its a compulsive need to wreck everything (laughs). You might notice thereÃÂs a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess thatÃÂs how some of us conduct our lives.” – David Bowie
thanks again spaceface!
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